339th Issue (November 2018) of Civil Service Chronicle is now on stands across India. Major highlights of the magazine include Special features on Important Topics, relevant for UPSC Civil Services Mains and Prelims. These topics include:

100 Steps Towards Success

Bonn Challenge and India

Exchange Rate Management in India

Mains 2018: Civil Service Chronicle’s Success Story

Economically Viable, Environmentally Sustainable Development

Constitutional Morality

Aadhar Verdict

India’s Energy Profile

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018

Human Development Index 2018

Navtej Johar V. Union of India: Key Highlights

Zero Budget Natural Farming

Status of India’s Ecological Hotspots

India Cooling Action Plan (ICAP)

Role of Faith in Conservation

Aadhar Verdict

Provisions that need to be changed

Surveillance

Privacy

Exclusion

Money Bill

India’s Energy Profile

Still Oriented towards Fossil fuels

Recent reforms in energy sector

Share of natural gas in energy mix

Domestic gas exploration and production

National Gas Grid

Gas Trading Hub/Exchange

Access to modern energy

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018

Key findings of the report

Impact of climate change

India’s performance on various hunger indicators

Food insecurity

Human Development Index 2018

HDI 2018: Key Findings

Quality of human development

High inequality is a fundamental challenge

India’s performance

Measuring human development

Colour-coded dashboards

Navtej Johar V. Union of India: key Highlights

What is ‘Natural’

The miniscule minority

Article 19 (1) and 21

Zero Budget Natural Farming

Andhra Pradesh inspires other states

Objectives of ZBNF

Zero budget farming in basmati rice-wheat system

Why India needs to promote this method

Status of India’s Ecological Hotspots

Ecological and Climate Hazards

Western Ghats: A Threatened Ecosystem

Himalayas: Unstable and Ecologically Fragile

Ganga: The Clean-up Challenges

The Sunderbans: A Critically Endangered Ecosystem

The Andamans: Vanguard for a Potential Tsunami

India Cooling Action Plan (ICAP)

Mains Goals

Building Energy Efficiency

Cold Chain and Refrigeration

Thematic Areas

Requirement of Cooling

24th World Ozone Day Celebration

Environment-friendly Cooling

Role of Faith in Conservation

Can Science and Faith cooperate for conservation biology

Sacred sites important for Biodiversity Conservation

Institutional efforts to conserve Sacred Sites

Strategy for India

Alliance of Religions and Conservation

CSE 2019: 100 Steps Towards Success

Why do you want to become IAS?

Preparation of note is an art

Is NCERT important for reading?

What to read from NCERT?

Overlap of the IAS Mains optional subjects with GS: Is this the right strategy